The New Black Gods

Taking the influential work of Arthur Huff Fauset as a starting point to break down the false dichotomy that exists between mainstream and marginal, a new generation of scholars offers fresh ideas for understanding the religious expressions of African Americans in the United States. Fauset's 1944 classic, Black Gods of the Metropolis, launched original methods and theories for thinking about African American religions as modern, cosmopolitan, and democratic. The essays in this collection show the diversity of African American religion in the wake of the Great Migration and consider the full field of African American religion from Pentecostalism to Black Judaism, Black Islam, and Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement. As a whole, they create a dynamic, humanistic, and thoroughly interdisciplinary understanding of African American religious history and life. This book is essential reading for anyone who studies the African American experience.

Edward E. Curtis IV is Millennium Scholar of the Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Indiana University--Purdue University Indianapolis. He is author of Islam in Black America and Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960--1975. He is editor of the Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States.

Danielle Brune Sigler is Curator of Academic Affairs at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin.

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
New Religious Movement(s) of the Great Migration Era
Fauset's (Missing) Pentecostals: Church Mothers, Remaking Respectability, and Religious Modernism	p. 15
"Grace Has Given God a Vacation": The History and Development of the Theology of the United House of Prayer of All People	p. 31
"Chased out of Palestine": Prophet Cherry's Church of God and Early Black Judaisms in the United States	p. 49
Debating the Origins of the Moorish Science Temple: Toward a New Cultural History	p. 70
"The Consciousness of God's Presence Will Keep You Well, Healthy, Happy, and Singing": The Tradition of Innovation in the Music of Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement	p. 91
"A True Moslem Is a True Spiritualist": Black Orientalism and Black Gods of the Metropolis	p. 116
Resurrecting Fauset's Vision for African American Religious Studies
Religion Proper and Proper Religion: Arthur Fauset and the Study of African American Religions	p. 145
The Perpetual Primitive in African American Religious Historiography	p. 171
Turning African Americans into Rational Actors: The Important Legacy of Fauset's Functionalism	p. 192
Defining the "Negro Problem" in Brazil: The Shifting Significance of Brazil's African Heritage from the 1890s to the 1940s	p. 209
Fauset and His Black Gods: Intersections with the Herskovits-Frazier Debate	p. 226
List of Contributors	p. 249
Index	p. 251
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